I recently got a Maxtor Sata 250 gig HDD and installed it yesterday. I installed the sata drivers on my MOBO manufacturers website (gigabyte 7n400 pro) and went to the disk manager to get the thing set up. Unfortunately, I think I may have selected the wrong items. It asked me if I wanted simple something or another (not simple file sharing) and I thought "Simple is good" so I chose that. Then another option.

Here is what I see:



As you can see, the sata drive (drive L because I had daemon tools up with 4 drives when I installed this and I haven't changed it over to drive F yet) is showing as a logical drive instead of a primary partition or logical drive. It also shows as a dynamic drive. Now, I don't really know what all that means, or if it is the cause of my instability.

Any suggestions from anybody? I've had the computer freeze a couple times now. It also took way over an hour to transfer around 37 gigs. It seems like that should take something more along the lines of 10-15 minutes if everything was working properly.

I checked, and I believe all the other drives are running in ultra-dma mode at ata100 or ata 133 depending on the drive. I'm not positive on that, but I am pretty sure those were the results I got when I checked.

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention that the sata drive is on channel 2 instead of one. I also don't know if that matters or not.

Hmm, my picture isn't giant, so I don't know why the screen is so wide.

I calculated the transfer and got 52 megabit hard drive to hard drive on a 2.5 gig transfer. I suppose that isn't TOO bad sustained, I don't really know how to compare that though. I guess half the max speed of one othe drives isn't a bad sustained speed. I just thought stuff transfered faster.

Both of my hard drives are SATA and I don't have any problem with them. I think your problem is with what you clicked earlier, the "Simple...". Because I have never seen a hard drive set up with a type of dynamic and a layout of simple. What I suggest is completely removing the hard drive from your device manager and reinstalling it.

simple volumes can only be created on dynamic disks, so my guess is when you selected that option, it made it automatically dynamic. Note to you though, check the little help box in the top left corners of stuff like this when you are not sure of what options to choose, as I found this information by doing just that. Remove the drive from your disk manager and setup a new one, just not a simple one.